Mark Schwartz

Mark J. Schwartz founded Palladin to acquire and actively manage corporations in the consumer products sector. He has taken on various roles in the companies in which he has invested or advised, including CEO, Chairman and active board member.

From 2010 to 2013 Schwartz served as Executive Chairman of Arnotts Limited, the largest department store in Ireland, having been recruited by the company’s lenders to manage the restructuring and growth of the business. In 2002 he merged the Palladin organisation into Gordon Brothers Group, becoming President and then CEO. From 2002 to 2009, he transitioned Gordon Brothers from a retail liquidation firm to a diversified professional services company with equal asset management, asset disposition and appraisal capabilities in the USA, Europe and Japan.

Schwartz has served as Chairman and Chief Executive of Nine West Group, President of Rosecliff, a New York-based buyout firm, and a Director of the Investment Banking Division of Merrill Lynch. He has also worked at public and private companies as Chairman or a Director, including Inmotion Entertainment Group, J. McLaughlin, Things Remembered, Restoration Hardware, Clair de Lune, Spencer Gifts, Party America, Laura Secord, Marketmax, Jones Apparel Group, Murray’s Discount Auto Stores, Government Services Property and CFM/Vermont Castings.

Schwartz is currently a Director of Tailwind Concessions, Nic+Zoe, KT Health, Splash Car Wash, Decowraps, Leapfrog Brands, Southeast Mechanical and M@C Discount.

He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.